The Extra is a Hero?-Chapter 328: THE SACRIFICE
Chapter 326: The Sacrifice
The sound of the Parasite King’s blade grinding against Selena’s scythe was the screech of a dying hard drive.
"Move, you broken thing!" The King roared, pressing down with the weight of a collapsing star. "You are already deleted! Why do you persist?!"
Selena didn’t answer. She couldn’t. Her avatar was flickering so violently that I could see the wireframe code beneath her skin. Her left arm was gone—erased by the backlash of my failed Domain—and the corruption was spreading toward her chest, turning her dress into dissolving pixels.
"Calculation," Selena’s voice stuttered, sounding like a skipping record. "Defensive... capability... at... 2\%."
She turned her head to look at me. Her obsidian eyes were calm, devoid of pain or fear.
"Michael," she said. "My mana reserves... are insufficient for combat... but sufficient for... fuel."
She extended her remaining hand toward me.
"Skill: Mana Transfer (Total)."
I froze. "What are you doing?"
"Logic dictates... the survival of the primary damage dealer," Selena explained, as if reading a manual. "If you drain my core... you will recover 100\% mana. You can cast the Domain again."
"And what happens to you?" I asked, though I already knew the answer.
"I am... a construct in this realm," Selena replied. "If my core reaches zero... I will be... formatted."
She wasn’t talking about fainting. She was talking about death. Absolute, irreversible deletion of her consciousness. The Selena standing here—the strange, logical, terrifyingly loyal girl—would be gone, leaving only an empty shell back in the physical world.
"Take it," Selena urged, the purple fire of the King’s blade inches from her neck. "It is... the optimal... strategy."
The Parasite King laughed. "Do it, Anomaly! Cannibalize your pet! Show me that you are truly a monster like me!"
I looked at Selena’s hand. It was offering me victory. It was the gamer move. Sacrifice the support to power up the carry. It was efficient. It was logical.
It was exactly what the old Michael would have done in a game.
But I looked at her face. I remembered Leon’s desperate plea: "Bring them back." I remembered her eating lunch with me in the cafeteria, trying to understand human humor.
"Optimal strategy," I whispered.
I reached out and grabbed her hand.
Selena nodded, preparing for the drain.
I shoved her backward.
"Inefficient," I grunted, using the last dregs of my stamina to throw her out of the King’s range.
Selena tumbled across the grey mud, her eyes wide with a rare expression: confusion. "Michael... logic error. You cannot... win without..."
"I don’t trade lives, Selena," I shouted, standing up. My legs shook. The King loomed over me, his blade raised. "And I don’t listen to robots."
"Touching," The Parasite King sneered. "Stupid. But touching. Now, die with your morals."
He swung the blade.
My hand flew to my Inventory.
"I didn’t say I was empty," I hissed. "I said I was out of my mana."
Next second, I remember that I have the Vial that could help in this situation .
I pulled out a small, crystal vial. It didn’t glow. It trapped the light. Inside swam a liquid that looked like liquid starlight.
I view the status of the Items and it is a unique rank item.
[Item: Elixir of the Archmage (Unique)]
[Rank: S]
[Origin: Reward for Perfect Clear - Tutorial Dungeon ]
[Effect: Instantly restores 100% Mana and boosts Mana Regeneration by 500% for 60 seconds.]
[Flavor Text: "Too good to use. Better save it for the final boss."]
I had held onto this potion for three hundred Chapters. I had almost used it against the Beastmaster. I had almost used it in the Iron Wilderness. But the hoarding instinct of a gamer—"What if I need it later?"—had stayed my hand.
"Well," I grinned, popping the cork with my thumb. "It’s later."
I downed the vial in one gulp.
It didn’t taste like a potion. It tasted like I had swallowed a lightning bolt wrapped in mint.
BOOM.
My mana core didn’t just refill; it detonated.
A pillar of pure, white mana erupted from my body, blasting the Parasite King backward just as his blade was about to touch my forehead.
"What?!" The King skidded back, shielding his eyes. "You have items here?! This is a spiritual plane! Physical matter cannot—"
"It’s a Soul-Bound item, you glitchy hack!" I roared.
I stood up. The grey world around me was suddenly washed in color. The mana was overflowing from my skin, crackling like blue electricity. My veins pulsed with so much power it hurt—a good hurt. The kind of hurt that meant I could rewrite the map.
[System Alert: Mana Overload.]
[Capacity: 400%]
[Time Remaining: 59 seconds.]
I looked at Selena. She was sitting in the mud, staring at me.
"Calculation update," I said, my voice echoing with power. "New probability of victory: 100\%."
I turned to the Parasite King. He was reforming his static armor, looking genuinely nervous for the first time.
"You think a potion makes you a god?" The King spat. "You are still just a human with a knife!"
"I’m not a god," I said, raising my hand. The space around my fingers began to twist, black sparks of the Void dancing between them. "I’m an Administrator."
I didn’t need to meditate this time. I didn’t need to focus. The mana was guiding me. The Understanding of Space I had unlocked a moment ago clicked into place.
"You wanted to see the Void?" I asked.
The air grew heavy. The static noise of the Spirit Realm stopped dead. The grasping hands on the ground froze.
I clapped my hands together.
"Domain Expansion."
(To be Continued)
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